9/11
/A score ago, minus one year, Osama Bin Laden and his terrorist organization brought the Muslim Intifada to the United States. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four airplanes and crashed them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the field in Pennsylvania. A total of 2977 people died that day.
The attack prompted the United States to escalate its efforts against Muslim terrorist groups around the world. Indeed the Bush administration implemented a new policy of Preventive War. President George Bush said, “I will not wait on events while dangers gather. I will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer. The United States of America will not permit the world’s most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world’s most destructive weapons.”
Today we are still at war. Approximately 7,000 Americans have died in the Middle East conflicts since 2001. (Approximately 200,000 people have died in the US from COVID-19 in the last 7-months).
One should know and study history to learn from past actions so that, hopefully, one does not repeat the same mistakes over and over again.
On November 19th, 1863, Abraham Lincoln stated at the Gettysburg battlefield:
"Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure.”
Please engage and make a difference; it all starts with quality education.
Yours in education,
Michael Bornn